My soon-to-be ex threatens to file a bankruptcy tomorrow and get me kicked out of the house. The frantic voice on the phone wanted to know whether he could do that in California. Or better, how he could be stopped from upsetting the pending divorce through the bankruptcy courts. Welcome to the volatile collision between bankruptcy and […]
Same Sex Couples No Different In Bankruptcy
Same sex couples encounter financial troubles no differently than heterosexual couples. We live in “interesting” times as bankruptcy courts feel their way through the collision between California’s state laws on domestic partnerships and married same sex couples and the federal law found (and now ignored) in DOMA. Lead by judges in the Central District […]
